Telechat Review of draft-kompella-l2vpn-l2vpn-
review-kompella-l2vpn-l2vpn-genart-telechat-even-2012-01-13-2-00

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Document:

draft-kompella-l2vpn-l2vpn-07

Reviewer: Roni Even

Review Date: 2011–9–7

IETF LC End Date: 2011–9–27

IESG Telechat date:



Summary: This draft is not ready for publication as an informational RFC.



Major issues:



The IANA considerations section says:

“the values  already allocated are in Table 1 of Section 4.  The allocation
policy  for new entries up to and including value 127 is "Standards Action". 
The allocation policy for values 128 through 251 is "First Come First Served". 
The values from 252 through 255 are for "Experimental Use".”



Yet this is document is intended for Informational status which contradict the
standard action. This is also true for the second registry defined.



Is this document really an Informational one?



Minor issues:



1.



In section  1.2.2 “

Since "traditional" Layer 2 VPNs (i.e., real Frame Relay circuits connecting
sites) are indistinguishable from tunnel-based VPNs from  the customer's
point-of-view, migrating from one to the other raises  few issues.” What are
the few issues?

2.



In section 4

“L2VPN TLVs can be added to extend the information carried in the NLRI, using
the format shown in Figure 2”. How is the TLV carried in the NLRI, in which
field, section 4.1 only talk about the structure of the TLV.

3.



Section 4.2 refers to section 4 but I am not sure where this mechanism in
section 4 is.













Nits/editorial comments:



1.



Section 3.1 is called network topology but the whole text is an example of a
network topology. Maybe the title should be “Example of a network toplogy”.

2.



Section 5 starts with “As defined so far in the document ….” But the using IP
only is already discussed in previous sections.